• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.871-875
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• 2008

This paper deals with the feature selection for multiple k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) classifiers using Genetic Algorithm with Varying reputation Size (GAVaPS). Because we use multiple k-NN classifiers, the feature selection problem for them is vary hard and has large search region. To solve this problem, we employ the GAVaPS which outperforms comparison with simple genetic algorithm (SGA). Further, we propose the efficient combining method for multiple k-NN classifiers using GAVaPS. Experiments are performed to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.9
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• pp.920-926
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• 2005

Nearest neighbor algorithms classify an unseen input instance by selecting similar cases and use the discovered membership to make predictions about the unknown features of the input instance. The usefulness of the nearest neighbor algorithms have been demonstrated sufficiently in many real-world domains. In nearest neighbor algorithms, it is an important issue to assign proper weights to the attributes. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a new method which can automatically assigns to each attribute a weight of its importance with respect to the target attribute. The method has been implemented as a computer program and its effectiveness has been tested on a number of machine learning databases publicly available.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.53-60
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• 2012

Nearest-neighbor classification predicts the class of an input data with the most frequent class among the near training data of the input data. Even though nearest-neighbor classification doesn't have a training stage, all of the training data are necessary in a predictive stage and the generalization performance depends on the quality of training data. Therefore, as the training data size increase, a nearest-neighbor classification requires the large amount of memory and the large computation time in prediction. In this paper, we propose a prototype selection algorithm that predicts the class of test data with the new set of prototypes which are near-boundary training data. Based on Tomek links and distance metric, the proposed algorithm selects boundary data and decides whether the selected data is added to the set of prototypes by considering classes and distance relationships. In the experiments, the number of prototypes is much smaller than the size of original training data and we takes advantages of storage reduction and fast prediction in a nearest-neighbor classification.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.10
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• pp.73-81
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• 2015

The paper proposes a prototype selection method and evaluates the generalization performance of standard algorithms and prototype based classification learning. The proposed prototype classifier defines multidimensional spheres with variable radii within class areas and generates a small set of training data. The nearest-neighbor classifier uses the new training set for predicting the class of test data. By decomposing bias and variance of the mean expected error value, we compare the generalization errors of k-nearest neighbor, Bayesian classifier, prototype selection using fixed radius and the proposed prototype selection method. In experiments, the bias-variance changing trends of the proposed prototype classifier are similar to those of nearest neighbor classifiers with all training data and the prototype selection rates are under 27.0% on average.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.5 no.10
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• pp.483-488
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a prototype-based classification learning by using the nearest-neighbor rule. The nearest-neighbor is applied to segment the class area of all the training data with hyperspheres, and a hypersphere must cover the data from the same class. The radius of a hypersphere is computed by the mid point of the two distances to the farthest same class point and the nearest other class point. And we transform the prototype selection problem into a set covering problem in order to determine the smallest set of prototypes that cover all the training data. The proposed prototype selection method is designed by a greedy algorithm and applicable to process a large-scale training set in parallel. The prediction rule is the nearest-neighbor rule and the new training data is the set of prototypes. In experiments, the generalization performance of the proposed method is superior to existing methods.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.84-88
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• 2011

In this paper, a new competition strategy for learning vector quantization is proposed. The simple competitive strategy used for learning vector quantization moves the winning prototype which is the closest to the newly given data pattern. We propose a new learning strategy based on k-nearest neighbor prototypes as the winning prototypes. The selection of several prototypes as the winning prototypes guarantees that the updating process occurs more frequently. The design is illustrated with the aid of numeric examples that provide a detailed insight into the performance of the proposed learning strategy.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.21-28
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a prototype-based classification learning by using the nearest-neighbor rule. The nearest-neighbor is applied to segment the class area of all the training data into spheres within which the data exist from the same class. Prototypes are the center of spheres and their radii are computed by the mid-point of the two distances to the farthest same class point and the nearest another class point. And we transform the prototype selection problem into a set covering problem in order to determine the smallest set of prototypes that include all the training data. The proposed prototype selection method is based on a greedy algorithm that is applicable to the training data per class. The complexity of the proposed method is not complicated and the possibility of its parallel implementation is high. The prototype-based classification learning takes up the set of prototypes and predicts the class of test data by the nearest neighbor rule. In experiments, the generalization performance of our prototype classifier is superior to those of the nearest neighbor, Bayes classifier, and another prototype classifier.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.17-27
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• 2010

Feature selection and feature weighting are useful techniques for improving the classification accuracy of k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) classifier. The main propose of feature selection and feature weighting is to reduce the number of features, by eliminating irrelevant and redundant features, while simultaneously maintaining or enhancing classification accuracy. In this paper, a novel hybrid approach is proposed for simultaneous feature selection, feature weighting and choice of k in k-NN classifier based on Genetic Algorithm. The results have indicated that the proposed algorithm is quite comparable with and superior to existing classifiers with or without feature selection and feature weighting capability.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.417-427
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• 2015

Purpose: This study investigated different band selection methods to classify spectrally similar data - obtained from aerial images of healthy citrus canopies and citrus greening disease (Huanglongbing or HLB) infected canopies - using small differences without unmixing endmember components and therefore without the need for an endmember library. However, large number of hyperspectral bands has high redundancy which had to be reduced through band selection. The objective, therefore, was to first select the best set of bands and then detect citrus Huanglongbing infected canopies using these bands in aerial hyperspectral images. Methods: The forward feature selection algorithm (FFSA) was chosen for band selection. The selected bands were used for identifying HLB infected pixels using various classifiers such as K nearest neighbor (KNN), support vector machine (SVM), naïve Bayesian classifier (NBC), and generalized local discriminant bases (LDB). All bands were also utilized to compare results. Results: It was determined that a few well-chosen bands yielded much better results than when all bands were chosen, and brought the classification results on par with standard hyperspectral classification techniques such as spectral angle mapper (SAM) and mixture tuned matched filtering (MTMF). Median detection accuracies ranged from 66-80%, which showed great potential toward rapid detection of the disease. Conclusions: Among the methods investigated, a support vector machine classifier combined with the forward feature selection algorithm yielded the best results.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.1345-1357
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• 2017

A prototype selection method chooses a small set of training points from a whole set of class data. As the data size increases, the selected prototypes play a significant role in covering class regions and learning a discriminate rule. This paper discusses the methods for selecting prototypes in a classification framework. We formulate a prototype selection problem into a set covering optimization problem in which the sets are composed with distance metric and predefined classes. The formulation of our problem makes us draw attention only to prototypes per class, not considering the other class points. A training point becomes a prototype by checking the number of neighbors and whether it is preselected. In this setting, we propose a greedy algorithm which chooses the most relevant points for preserving the class dominant regions. The proposed method is simple to implement, does not have parameters to adapt, and achieves better or comparable results on both artificial and real-world problems.